When Bollywood singing legend Shammi Kapoor died last year, his funeral cast a unique light on the close bonds between India’s business and entertainment elites.

Among the pallbearers as his flower-strewn coffin was born aloft on its final journey from his house in Mumbai was Anil Ambani, the billionaire brother of Mukesh, India’s richest man. And while mourners wept, a string of other tycoons could be spotted in the crowd, grieving alongside the cream of India’s film actors and directors.

But this week the relationship has been under mounting strain. The reason? A new film, Chakravuyah, from one of India’s